2025:Hackathon/Project Submissions
The Wikimania Hackathon 2025 is coming, and we want your project ideas! Whether you're maintaining a tool, improving MediaWiki extensions, designing for better usability, or working on bots, gadgets, or documentation, this is your chance to collaborate and innovate with Wikimedia's technical community onsite at Wikimania.
Wikimania Hackathon 2025 Projects call will be open soon!
- 🎯 Who can submit?
- Anyone attending Wikimania 2025 onsite — developers, designers, translators, newcomers, experienced contributors, and organisers.
- 🛠 What to submit?
- Tools, scripts, bots, MediaWiki or Wikidata development, design/UI work, documentation or translation projects, or anything technical that supports Wikimedia.
- 📍 Onsite only
- Please note: this hackathon will be held entirely onsite. Project leads and collaborators must be present in person.
- 📅 Deadline for submission
- Open through out the hackathon period
How to Submit Your Project
To ensure all projects are visible and organized, please follow these steps:
- Go to Wikimedia Phabricator and click Create Generic Task.
- Or click on the link to fill in the details using the submission template below.
- Add the project tag: #Wikimania-Hackathon-2025
- Click Create New Task.
Submission Template
Click on the link to use the pre-filled template: https://w.wiki/ETVN
Project Ideas
You can browse all submitted ideas on the Phabricator workboard. This is a great way to find inspiration or a team to join!
For Newcomer Friendly tasks, Please browse through the projects below. These are newcomer tasks as some mentors are willing to provide support for completion.
Note: If you are an experienced contributor and you can support a newcomer to complete a good first task. Please add the task details to the table for a newcomer to pick up the task.
| Project Title | Description | Skills Needed | Mentee(s) | Mentor(s) | Phabricator Link | Mentor(s) contact | Mentee(s) contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WikiData + Maps Tool Integration | Map cultural heritage from Wikidata using Leaflet.js | JavaScript, APIs, SPARQL | User:1223344 | User:YourName | T123456 | contact | contact |